Sisig (mythology)

Sisig, also known under the Akkadian name Zaqīqu, was a Mesopotamian god. He was regarded as a god of dreams, though he was not the only Mesopotamian deity associated with them. The Neo-Assyrian oneiromancy compendium Iškar Zaqīqu was named after him. He’s also attested in the Old Babylonian myth Death of Gilgamesh, in an incantation from the same period, and in the god list An = Anum. The latter two of these sources describe him as a son or messenger of the sun god Shamash.

In the late first millennium BCE in Hatra the Akkadian form of Sisig's name appears in theophoric names, but it might have functioned as a term for deified ancestors, rather than as the proper name of a singular deity like in earlier sources.